Baseform came to exist through the intertwining of computer science and water engineering R&D, and the rethinking from scratch of many existing processes. The innovative software platform began taking shape in 2010. It has since garnered large numbers of users in all continents and been applied by dozens of utilities in Europe, USA, South America & Australia.

Open-source

Some of Baseform’s solutions were born from open-source efforts, giving back to the community the essence of the engineering methods incorporated, and opening them to crowd-sourced validation and innovation.

Most software is distributed under a license, which means there are certain things that you are legally permitted (and not permitted) to do with the software and source code.

Baseform's software includes both proprietary and open-source components, and we do not think that all the tools that can exist around our platform will have to be bound to the same license. There are already different licenses on libraries used by Baseform tools — on every tool and app, we state its exact license and the licenses of any libraries used.

About the GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License, or GPL, is an open-source license. Open-source doesn't just mean that you can view the source code — it has a broader philosophical implication. 'Free' is not a statement related to price; rather, it refers to certain freedoms, namely: freedom to run the software, freedom to study how it works, freedom to try changing it and freedom to share within certain limits, namely keeping any derived works under the same type of licensing.This means that you cannot profit directly from the work or from maintaining the attribution and integrity of the existing license. The difference between the two is often compared to the distinction between 'free as in speech' vs. 'free as in beer' — GPL is free as in speech. To find out more:

H2 Databasehttp://www.h2database.com/H2 License - http://www.h2database.com/html/license.html[dual licensed and available under a modified version of the MPL 1.1 (Mozilla Public License)or under the (unmodified) EPL 1.0 (Eclipse Public License)]